James Levine
| Known For | Sound |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6389 |
| Birthday | 1943-06-23 |
| Place of Birth | Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
| Also Known As |
1996
The Transformation of the World Into Music
8.333/3
This film was prepared as a introduction to a series of opera broadcasts on German television. It depicts the behind-the-scenes manoeuvrings in prepar...
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The Transformation of the World Into Music
1980
La Clemenza di Tito
0/0
"La Clemenza di Tito" was Mozart's last stage work. It was commissioned for an Imperial coronation ceremony while Mozart was at work on "Die Zauberflö...
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La Clemenza di Tito
2012
The Metropolitan Opera: Wagner's Dream
0/0
Wagner's Dream-the documentary highlighting the creative process and technical aspects involved in realizing Robert LePage’s production of the MET's n...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Wagner's Dream
1980
Don Carlo
0/0
Don Carlo (1980) Metropolitan Opera. Verdi / italian. King Philip's court is plagued by rebels, family squabbles and intrigue. The Spanish Inquisition...
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Don Carlo
1996
La Forza del Destino - The Met
0/0
With James Levine at the helm, Verdi’s multi-faceted masterpiece is revealed as a drama of almost Shakespearean proportions. Superstar Plácido Domingo...
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La Forza del Destino - The Met
1977
Rigoletto
9/2
A Victor Hugo play, haunting and scandalous, provided the inspiration for Verdi’s mid-career masterpiece. A vengeful but misguided court jester strive...
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Rigoletto
1984
Francesca da Rimini
10/1
Live performance at the Metropolitan Opera, 1984. James Levine conducting Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus. Stage direction by Piero Faggioni.
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Francesca da Rimini
2000
Fantasia 2000
6.973/1393
Blending lively music and brilliant animation, this sequel to the original 'Fantasia' restores 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice' and adds seven new shorts.
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Fantasia 2000
1994
Elektra
6.167/3
The Otto Schenk production of Richard Strauss's "Elektra", filmed live at the Metropolitan Opera in January, 1994. Hildegard Behrens stars as Elektra,...
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Elektra
2010
Das Rheingold
6.833/3
In the depths of the Rhine, the three Rhinemaidens guard the Rhinegold, a treasure of immeasurable value. The Nibelung dwarf Alberich is dazzled by th...
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Das Rheingold
2000
The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute
10/2
Mozart’s allegorical fairy tale has charmed audiences and inspired artists, for more than 200 years. A few weeks before this telecast, the Met unveile...
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The Metropolitan Opera: The Magic Flute
1991
Un Ballo in Maschera
8/1
Verdi's opera performed by the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by James Levine.
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Un Ballo in Maschera
2010
The Metropolitan Opera: Don Pasquale
0/0
Donizetti’s timeless comedy shines in Otto Schenk’s enchanting production, conducted by James Levine and featuring a remarkable cast. The incomparable...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Don Pasquale
1995
Otello
4.5/2
Verdi’s monumental score is fully the equal of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy—and both demand great actors. This is one performance where both playwrigh...
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Otello
1994
Il Tabarro & Pagliacci
6.4/5
Puccini's Il Tabarro & Leoncavallo's Pagliacci; Pavarotti and Domingo star in MET 1994-1995 season opener.
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Il Tabarro & Pagliacci
2001
Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg
10/1
James Morris leads an all-star cast including Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, Thomas Allen and René Pape, in this production of Wagner's comic opera, rec...
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Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg
2010
In Concert at The Met
6/1
In Concert at the Met (DVD) - Highlights Five of the Met's greatest stars - Price, Horne, Troyanos, Domingo, and Milnes - joined James Levine for a se...
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In Concert at The Met
1983
Don Carlo
8/1
Ghiaurov, Freni, and Bumbry were great voices in their time, and they are still effective here -- good enough musicians to put over the quite heavy vo...
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Don Carlo
1981
Verdi: Rigoletto
0/0
The opera's dramatic structure frames and enhances the characters. Scenes of magnificence regularly alternate with scenes of darkness and squalor. Fro...
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Verdi: Rigoletto
1996
Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
0/0
This tribute to James Levine, first shown on PBS, was only part of that glorious evening. Here we have the whole performance, up to three hours. I cou...
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Metropolitan Opera Gala James Levine's 25th Anniversary
1982
The Metropolitan Opera - Wagner: Tannhäuser
7/1
As renowned for its harmonious overture as for its romantic storybook characters, this three-act masterwork features some of the composer’s most groun...
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The Metropolitan Opera - Wagner: Tannhäuser
1995
Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
8/1
This evocative production by Giancarlo Del Monaco sumptuously captures the look and feel of 14th century Genoa and is a perfect compliment to Verdi’s...
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Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
1988
Carmen
8.167/6
This all-star cast is framed by Peter Hall’s gritty, realistic production and conducted by James Levine, who brings out all the surging emotion and gr...
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Carmen
1977
La Bohème
7.667/3
Puccini’s heartbreaking story of young love in the garrets of Belle Epoque Paris has attracted many famous singers through the years. But with James L...
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La Bohème
1991
L'Elisir d'Amore
8.667/3
John Copley’s colorful production, with designs by Beni Montresor, was created around the beloved superstar Luciano Pavarotti. As the simple, good-hea...
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L'Elisir d'Amore
1983
Berlioz: Les Troyens
10/1
Berlioz’s colossal masterpiece requires stupendous forces—dozens of soloists, enormous chorus, orchestra and ballet, a superb conductor who understand...
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
1982
La traviata
7.1/27
This “Traviata” became one of the most succesful of all opera films, especially in France, where 800,000 Parisian cinemagoers flocked to it in the fir...
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La traviata
1982
Puccini: La bohème
0/0
"La Bohème" is one of Giacomo Puccini's most popular and timeless works and the second-most performed opera at New York's Metropolitan Opera. This pro...
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Puccini: La bohème
2000
The Fantasia Legacy: Fantasia Continued
0/0
A documentary on the making of Fantasia 2000.
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The Fantasia Legacy: Fantasia Continued
1990
Das Rheingold
7.8/5
From the gorgeous scene deep in the river Rhine that opens the opera, up to the magic Rainbow Bridge that appears at the end, leading to a glistening...
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Das Rheingold
1980
Strauss: Elektra
0/0
It's hard to imagine confirmed Straussians not wanting this starry Metropolitan Opera performance of Elektra. Strauss and his librettist, Hugo von Hof...
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Strauss: Elektra
1993
Richard Wagner: Parsifal
9.5/2
The Met production easily has the most beautiful staging, designed by Otto Schenck, who also produced the fabulous set for the Met's previous Ring cyc...
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Richard Wagner: Parsifal
1989
Die Walküre
8.1/8
The gorgeous and evocative Otto Schenk/Günther Schneider-Siemssen production continues with this second opera in Wagner’s Ring cycle. Hildegard Behren...
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Die Walküre
1993
Falstaff
7.5/3
It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi that there remained within him one last great comed...
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Falstaff
1983
The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
0/0
In celebration of its 100th anniversary in 1983, the Metropolitan Opera hosts a four-hour performance uniting some of the world's most spellbinding op...
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The Metropolitan Opera Centennial Gala
1990
Siegfried
7.667/3
Siegfried is the third of the four operas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner.
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Siegfried
1982
Idomeneo
8/2
Opera royalty Luciano Pavarotti brings dignity and power to the title role in this 1982 production. During a squall at sea, Idomeneo -- the king of Cr...
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Idomeneo
2017
Verdi: Nabucco
0/0
The legendary Plácido Domingo brings another new baritone role to the Met under the baton of his longtime collaborator James Levine. Liudmyla Monastyr...
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Verdi: Nabucco
2017
The Metropolitan Opera: Idomeneo
4.5/2
Mozart’s early masterpiece returned to the Met for the first time in more than a decade with Music Director Emeritus James Levine, who led the work’s...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Idomeneo
2008
La Damnation de Faust - Metropolitan Opera
8/2
Radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and dashing Italian tenor Marcello Giordani are unlucky lovers in La Damnation de Faust, Hector Berlioz’s classic t...
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La Damnation de Faust - Metropolitan Opera
2009
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
0/0
Director and choreographer Mark Morris’s production of Gluck’s masterpiece updates the immortal story from its ancient Greek roots to the timeless pre...
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
1984
La Forza del Destino - Metropolitan Opera
9/1
Leonora plans to elope with Don Alvaro, but he accidentally shoots and kills her father, who curses them as he dies. The lovers go on the run, but get...
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La Forza del Destino - Metropolitan Opera
1981
La Traviata - The Met
0/0
James Levine leads a remarkable cast in one of Verdi’s most enduringly popular operas and brings fresh insights to this beloved score. Ileana Cotrubas...
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La Traviata - The Met
1999
Tristan und Isolde
8.667/3
Inspired by Wagner’s own tortured affair with the wife of his patron, this searing masterwork is based on Arthurian legend and tells of an illicit rom...
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Tristan und Isolde
1982
Der Rosenkavalier
0/0
In this stunning performance from 1982, Strauss’s enchanting fairy tale for adults is blessed with a cast, conductor, and production that have made it...
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Der Rosenkavalier
1988
Ariadne auf Naxos - Metropolitan Opera
8/2
Jessye Norman is a regal Ariadne, the mythological Greek heroine in this opera-within-an-opera, opposite the passionate Bacchus of the great James Kin...
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Ariadne auf Naxos - Metropolitan Opera
1988
Il Trovatore
7.5/3
Luciano Pavarotti brings his spectacular voice and artistry to one of the most famous of all tenor roles—Manrico, the ardent troubadour, trapped in an...
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Il Trovatore
2014
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Metropolitan Opera
6/1
James Levine leads a stirring performance of Wagner’s epic comedy, seen in Otto Schenk’s classic production. Baritone Michael Volle stars as Hans Sach...
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Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Metropolitan Opera
2006
In Rehearsal: A New Butterfly for the Met
0/0
Late Academy Award–winning director Anthony Minghella made his Met debut on Opening Night of the 2006–07 season, with a now-classic staging of Puccini...
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In Rehearsal: A New Butterfly for the Met
2004
The Verbier Festival & Academy 10th Anniversary: Piano Extravaganza
0/0
Switzerland's annual Verbier Festival has become one of the premier international musical celebrations, attracting a who's who of world-renowned artis...
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The Verbier Festival & Academy 10th Anniversary: Piano Extravaganza
1991
The Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991
0/0
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The Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991
1979
Luisa Miller: Metropolitan Opera
0/0
Renata Scotto is the innocent Luisa, very much in love with Rodolfo (Plácido Domingo in one of his best roles). But he turns out to be the son of the...
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Luisa Miller: Metropolitan Opera
1998
Pavarotti 30th Anniversary Gala Concert
0/0
Celebrating a great artist is always a gala occasion, but when the honoree is the legendary Luciano Pavarotti, the event is one to treasure. To pay tr...
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Pavarotti 30th Anniversary Gala Concert
1998
Le Nozze di Figaro
7/1
The Met assembled a vocal dream team for Jonathan Miller’s stylish production of the eternal Mozart masterpiece: Renée Fleming as the Countess, Cecili...
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Le Nozze di Figaro
2009
Les Contes d'Hoffmann - Metropolitan Opera
7/1
Live from the Metropolitan Opera 19 December 2009.
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Les Contes d'Hoffmann - Metropolitan Opera
2011
The Metropolitan Opera: Die Walküre
7.5/2
Robert Lepage’s landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course of the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons, was the first new M...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Die Walküre
2015
The Metropolitan Opera: Tannhäuser
4/1
Met Music Director James Levine leads this Live in HD presentation of Wagner’s early Romantic opera, starring Johan Botha in the title role of the min...
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The Metropolitan Opera: Tannhäuser
1985
Aida
7/1
This was one of the most emotional evenings in Met history—the night Leontyne Price bid farewell to opera. Aida is the role that inspired audiences ar...
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Aida
1986
Lohengrin - Metropolitan Opera
8/1
Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just what we have here. Is it possible for a Knight of th...
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Lohengrin - Metropolitan Opera
1980
Puccini: Manon Lescaut
8/1
All the throbbing eroticism—and ultimate heartbreak—of Puccini’s youthful score is unleashed by James Levine and his top-flight cast. Plácido Domingo...
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